Women's Studies Research Group

The WS Research Group is a n opportunity for faculty and students with an interest in gender issues to share scholarship in a regular lecture series that is open to the JMU community.

Previous Series: Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009

Fall 2009

Wednesday, September 30
"Lessons from My Mother: A Daughter’s Letter"
Dr. Besi Muhonja (FLLC)
Taylor 304, 3-4 p.m.

Friday, October 23
"Ma Ellen: Liberia's Iron Lady? Gender and the 2005 Liberian Presidential Election"
Dr. Melinda Adams (Political Science)
Taylor 304, 1-2 p.m.

Wednesday, November 4
"Bioethics and the Pregnant Body"
Dr. Margaret Little
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Co-Sponsored by The Honors Program
Miller 1101, 6-7 p.m.

Wednesday, November 11
"Rocking the Boat: A Conversation about Women and the Creation of Gender Diversity at Annapolis"
Tina Marie D’Ercole, Sharon Haneley Disher, and Elizabeth Sternaman
Miller 1101, 6:30 p.m.